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Why not a real extreme makeover? 
You choose the dyslexic/s.  Don McCabe will help them learn that they can learn to read and write competently.

Picture is from a video which you can get free.  Or just go the website and watch Don McCabe get a dyslexic in his first lesson to instantly read the word “malicious” correctly the first time McCabe writes the word out on a dry erase board.  The word malicious had been shown to the young man at the beginning of the lesson and at that point he hadn't a clue as to what this big word was.  www.avko.org/freebies/video.htm

Meet Don McCabe the only expert on dyslexia who is a dyslexic himself and who will give straight answers and not excuses.

 1.      Can it be done in 6 hours?  No.

2.      Can it be done in 6 days?  No, but a great start can be had.

3.      Can it be done in 6 weeks?.  Well, almost.  The change will be startling.

4.      Can it be done in 6 months?.  Absolutely.

5.      What is the secret?  Daily tutoring.

6.      What will be used?  The Teaching of Reading and Spelling Starting at Square One  http://www.spelling.org/Books/Starting%20at%20Square%20One%2001.htm
Sequential Spelling 1-7
The Tricky Words
The New Word Families in Sentence Context
The Patterns of English Spelling
Readings for Fluency
Apostrophes Made Easy
Speech to Spelling
Fun books from Dr. Seuss up through Harry Potter and the Bible.

7.      Where would the extreme makeover take place?  At the AVKO Reading Clinic in Birch Run, Michigan

8.      Would a parent or spouse be able to be there?  You bet.  They will receive training in tutoring and do much of it themselves.

 Who is Don McCabe? He is the Research Director of the non-profit AVKO Educational Research Foundation founded in 1974 and the author of over 20 books in the area of teaching spelling, reading, and handwriting,

Review: ”It takes a dyslexic like Don McCabe to teach us what dyslexia really is.  It can be more a gift than it is a handicap.  What he has achieved, other dyslexics can achieve—with the proper help from teachers who understand the logic that schools systems can use to teach reading and writing.  Eldo Berman, M.D., Texas Reading Institute. 

For more info contact Don McCabe at the AVKO Educational Research Foundation. Phone Toll Free 1-866-285-6612 or visit the AVKO website at http://www.spelling.org